Red Skull and the Invaders confirmed for ‘Captain America’

If you’re going to do a Captain America origin movie, you better make sure he has the right costumed company.

While doing press for “The Wolfman,” director Joe Johnston has confirmed quite the exciting character news about his other big flick, 2011’s “The First Avenger: Captain America.” Not only will the Red Skull be Cap’s movie nemesis, but Cap will also have the Invaders around to help thump on Johann Shmidt and those other damn, dirty Nazis.

So in addition to the Skull, we should also likely get Bucky, Sub-Mariner, the original Human Torch and Toro on the big screen. And “in the entire second half” of the movie to boot, according to Johnston. Too. Freaking. Cool.

As Superhero Hype! reports, Johnston has his reasons for focusing so much on Cap’s pre-Popsicle days.

“Virtually the entire story except the bookends are in World War II because we all recognize we have one chance to tell the origin story of how he became Captain America, you can’t tell a modern story and then go back and tell the origin story. If you’re going to do it, let’s do it. Let’s do it first. Everyone wanted to tell an origin story. There was a version where it was a modern story and it didn’t work.”

Too true. Cap’s whole raison d’être was fighting Hitler and the Axis powers in WWII, so darn tootin’ you should start there, soldier. Now let’s get some casting for those troops and especially that Super Soldier already.